The DMI held its first workshop, “Disaster Management and Emergency Services: Next Generation Device, Communication, and Collaboration Technologies” on March 26, 2010. Launched by Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley and the CyLab Mobility Research Center, DMI is a new technology partnership and incubator that brings together key partners and individuals to collaborate on next-generation solutions for more effective management of disaster and emergency response among the public, emergency responders and command centers in California and beyond. A translation app is critical for relief efforts in Haiti when volunteers, including medical professionals, who do not speak the local language are on the ground aiding Haitians.Īlso aiding in disaster recovery is the newly established Disaster Management Initiative (DMI). It was also submitted to CrisisCampHaiti to aid in relief efforts after the devastating earthquake in January. The Jibbigo app has been tremendously successful, becoming one of the top travel apps, even rising to the number one selling app in Japan. Jibbigo is an iPhone app that translates language back and forth. The first project to come out of interACT’s research at the Silicon Valley site is Jibbigo. This allows us to create a new set of systems for new languages or new domains in a much shorter time frame," said Dr. By using data-driven machine translation, we are able to learn the translation model automatically from a set of translation examples. However, this is expensive to build and difficult to deploy for any new set of languages and domains. "In the past, people used grammar-based translation techniques, which requires human efforts in writing grammar rules to build up a translation lexicon. The Silicon Valley team was the first to successfully deploy a full-scale statistical machine translation application on a mobile device. Joy Zhang, assistant research professor and Dr. Alex Weibel, professor of computer science Dr. The research team at Silicon Valley campus includes Director Dr. The research emphasis is in speech recognition, language processing, speech translation, multimodal and perceptual user interfaces.
InterACT’s mission is to carry out scientific research on Advanced Communication Technologies as well as to promote and facilitate education in an international, cross-cultural setting. With sites in Pittsburgh, Germany, Hong Kong and Tokyo, Silicon Valley marks the fifth center that interACT has launched. Late in 2009, the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT) launched its latest site at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. Photo credit: Carnegie Mellon Silicon ValleyĪ close-up of the Jibbigo app. Joy Zhang and Matthias Eck with the Jibbigo app.
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